The Sims 4: Adventure Awaits expansion pack revealed, promising an old-school vacation with new woodland and beachside destinations

Apart from balance patches, The Sims 4 developers have been a little quiet recently. The team has certainly been cooking, though, because we just had our first look at the game’s next big moment.

The next major release for The Sims 4 is Adventure Awaits, the expansion that’s just been revealed.

Today’s trailer is brief, only really serving to unveil Adventure Awaits to the world. As with most trailers these days, it arrived via the medium of YouTube Premieres, and quite a few people had been idling in chat prior to the big moment, waiting for the countdown to reach zero.

As most players had already predicted, the theme of Adventure Awaits is vacations, with two new locations to explore as part of the new goal-oriented “getaway” system: Camp Gibbi Gibbi, a woodland destination reminiscent of kids’ summer camps, and Love Highland, a beach villa style resort which apparently incorporates some reality TV inspired “challenges”.

Highlights of the pack’s new and returning features include the reintroduction of the Imaginary Friend occult type (arguably The Sims 3’s most uncomfortable supernatural life state), modular treehouses, customisable vacation venues, and the apparent ability to WooHoo in open water.

There are also new options to work out with spin bikes and freeweights, and a new Park Worker career, with Forest Ranger and Camp Counsellor branches. Older Sims can now gain the Competitive trait, while child Sims get plenty of new Simology of their own, from a new Aspiration to more traits, sentiments, and milestone moments.

That’s almost all we know for now, but we only have to wait one more week until the official gameplay trailer reveals more on September 10th. Meantime, we do at least have a release date for the pack already: October 2nd, with the usual limited-edition pre-order goodies available for anyone who buys before November 13th.

The Sims 4’s most recent expansion release has been Enchanted by Nature, which arrived on July 10. Since then, theres been one major update, which released last month. The DLC has been pretty popular with the community, too.

We recently spoke to YouTuber Eva Rotky about how the game’s build/buy tools have evolved over the years, what remains missing, and what she’d been up to since Enchanted by Nature came out. Hit the link for the full conversation – and this one if you want to appease the gnomes.